More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one of my recommendations: explore something, even if it’s just a bookshelf. Make a stab in...

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace.

There’s a story behind every Bookworm”!

I wish to deal only with the masterpieces which the consensus of opinion for a long time has accepted as supreme. We are all supposed to have read them; it is a pity that so...

Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.

The endless piles of genre fiction are the key to happiness. They’re the key to picking out the things that actually make you happy in this world instead of the things that you’re told are...

Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations.

Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more light until the line of words becomes a trail of crumbs that we follow across a page...

Make a new friend by picking up a book and getting to know it!

Books were my passion and my escape from madness.

Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?

Contemporary writers annoyed him, he found their worlds insular, their style too self-conscious and ironic. Theirs was not a literature that belonged to him.

People that read fucking books don’t take action!

Read to lead in order to succeed.

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books.

Read! Write! Imagine! Create! Love! Live!

I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am to imagine that I might, someday, become smarter.

It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points...

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

Most people have a list of 100 books to read before they die, or 100 places to visit. Not me. I have a list of 100 birthdays to see. No need to write them down,...

Reading brings us unknown friends.

She remembered one of her boyfriends asking, offhandedly, how many books she read in a year. “A few hundred,” she said.”How do you have the time?” he asked, gobsmacked.She narrowed her eyes and considered the...

I wouldn’t read Jarod’s writing—not even if he paid me to read it. And he does pay me to read his writing, but that doesn’t mean I do.” Of course the quote continued on, but...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

I wish the military were the militerary. Less fighting and more reading.

How to read “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone”? Why, very quickly, to begin with, and perhaps also to make an end. Why read it? Presumably, if you cannot be persuaded to read anything better,...

When someone tells me they don’t read, I like to walk up to them and stroke their hair, pet it really, because you know who also doesn’t read? My cat. In essence, these people are...

I keep my motivational book collection in the fridge. Hey, Who Moved My Cheese?! Did somebody let grandpa out of his cage again?

Books; I repeat, for they’ve not only been a solace during the long years but also provided the keys to understanding other people’s ideas and achievements, their hopes and fears, quirks and foibles, their dreams…..their...

And reading this way – with no deadline, no agenda – she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a new man and knowing that he had made other women come,...

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation… A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed...

There’s a kid or some kids somewhere. I’ll never know them. They’re particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana. They might be demi-dystopians from Dogdick, Delaware. They dig my demonic dramas. The...

From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Reading changes your life. Reading unlocks worlds unknown or forgotten, taking travelers around the world and through time. Reading helps you escape the confines of school and pursue your own education. Through characters – the...

Don’t forget, and don’t let your reader forget, that the small world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn’t ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all...

Without moving, you walk through lands you imagine you can see, and your thoughts, weaving in and out of the story, delight in the details or follow the outlines of the adventures. You merge with...

He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

… going out late at night and laying in the dewy field and reading a Kurt Vonnegut book by moonlight.

Books took, in her young life, the place of companions and childish games. She read a great deal without guidance or discrimination, and gained all her ideas on life, all her faith, all her ideals...

[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they’re doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.

I, of course, wanted to do something with Drew Barrymore. Please. So we were reading scripts back and forth and then we found this script, Fever Pitch.

I have falling in love with reading.

You don’t spend your life hanging around books without learning a thing or two.

My life is a reading list.

En resolución, él se enfrascó tanto en su lectura, que se le pasaban las noches leyendo de claro en claro, y los días de turbio en turbio, y así, del poco dormir y del mucho...

So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading — about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another,...

To be informed is to know simply that something is the case. To be enlightened is to know, in addition, what it is all about: why it is the case, what its connections are with...

Without books we should very likely be a still-primitive people living in the shadow of traditions that faded with years until only a blur remained, and different memories would remember the past in different ways....